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Many city workers are eligible for legacy health plans that aren't available to private-sector workers in any but the ritziest of jobs. Some such plans, for instance, offer 100% coverage for basic surgeries with little if any co-pay, whereas private plans may require a $250 to $500...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Government Jobs Looking Better in the Downturn | 11/22/2008 | See Source »


Though Dolly the sheep was the first clone to be shoved into the limelight, in 1996, the process of human-directed cloning has existed since 1952. In that year, American researchers Robert Briggs and Thomas King successfully removed the nucleus of a tadpole's embryonic cell and transferred it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cloning | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

Williams, a real estate attorney who organized this week's foreclosure-prevention clinic in his predominantly African-American city north of Miami, knows the Feds aren't likely to approve his proposal. But he wants to get the discussion started - and to keep any pressure he can on lenders. "Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grass-Roots Efforts Aim to Ease the Foreclosure Crisis | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

By its fourth year, the American Cancer Society claims, as many as 16.5 million people participated in the Smokeout, with a million dropping the habit for good. The campaign was directed in particular at young people; antismoking activists said it was harder to keep teenagers from picking up the habit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great American Smokeout | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, alarmed that the agreement - which has taken nine months of painstaking negotiations - was about to unravel, fired broadsides in all directions. At a press conference, he lambasted naysayers as political opportunists who were trying to hold his government for ransom, in effect working against the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fierce Debate in Iraq Over US Troop Withdrawal | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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